Exactly! Why target only striped bass?

Posted by David Dempsey on 2011-11-02 14:37:46
in reply to Why target only striped bass? posted by Ralph on 2011-11-02 10:34:09

(from another response re Moyle and Bennet)

5. There is a tendency to conflate all predation losses of salmon with striped bass and/or to dismiss the effects of other predators as being insignificant (e.g. Hansen 2009). In fact, there are a multitude of other predators on juvenile salmon in the system, from birds (e.g., mergansers,cormorants, terns) to other fish, native and non-native, including juvenile steelhead. The most abundant fish predator in the Delta today is probably largemouth bass, as the result of changes in hydrodynamics related to the ever-increasing export of water (Moyle and Bennett 2008). If a control program for striped bass can be justified, then it is likely one should also be instituted forlargemouth bass, as well as for spotted bass, channel catfish, and other non-native predatory fish